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     Walter Lee (Aug. 14, 1901) married Ethel Green (March 13, 1902) in 1924. 
     
     Wally and Ethel farm in Central Bedeque and have a family of seven 
     
     sons: Lloyd, Denton, Ralph, Willard, Claude, Hazen and Wendell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ralph Hall (Aug. 8, 1909) married Alice Waugh (March 29, 1914), daughter 
     
     of Thomas and Jerusha (Hogg) Waugh. Ralph continued to live at 
     
     home and eventually took over the farm. Ralph and Alice run a mixed 
     
     farming operation. From 1942 to 1945 Ralph was roadmaster for the 
     
     Wilmot Valley District ensuring that the roads were broken open 
     
     during the winter. Ralph and Alice have frequently opened their spac- 
     
     ious and comfortable home for community showers and quilting 
     
     parties, As well, Ralph has, on many occasions, lent his musical 
     
     talents on the piano at social gatherings, much to the enjoyment of all 
     
     who were in attendance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The original Schurman home, built about 1835, still stands in Ralph’s 
     
     barnyard. Before being converted to a henhouse the building had a porch 
     
     on it. The heavy granite stones in the hearth were hauled down to the river 
     
     bank, but the old oak water-buckets continued to hang in the building until 
     
     they collapsed with age. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Running from the Wilmot Grove Road easterly along the north side of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Wilmot River is the Clark‘s Mills Road. It is often called the “Mill” 
     
     Road. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This little lane has had quite a number of inhabitants over the years. 
     
     Most of these were transients and of those who took up permanent 
     
     residence, our information is very sketchy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Apparently there were two cottages along the right side of the lane and 
     
     a cottage and a small barn next to the stream on the left side. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SMALLWOOD 
     
    
   
   
    
     1n the 1861 census there is a Joseph Smallwood living along the lane, 
     
     apparently in the cottage next to the stream, and employed as a miller. 1n 
     
     the house there were Joseph. a female between twenty—one and forty-five 
     
     years whom we assume to be his wife, and six children, one male under five 
     
     years and one between five and sixteen years. Two females were under five 
     
     years and two females were between five and sixteen years. There were one 
     
     death and one birth in the family during the year. Joseph did not appear on 
     
     the 1881 census. We have no record of anyone living in this cottage after 
     
     this family and it was apparently destroyed before Earl Schurman took up 
     
     residence on the site and built the home that stands there today.